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Meet Toby, our new cat… sort of

Last December, we started getting greeted by a new cat in the morning – a black, brown, and white cat that we have nicknamed Toby. He started showing up by the window, looking inside.

Toby at first came to the front window every single morning, and our cat Ruby would stare at him. When he walked back and forth, she walked back and forth. When he ran off, she would chase him through the window.

But Ruby hated him. She hated him so much! She would stare at him through the window, hissing and growling. But she was mesmerized and couldn’t leave him alone.

Well, we started feeding Toby. We would give him some food and he would eat it outside. Ruby would snoop and try to stick her nose out the door but we didn’t let her.

Things changed one day when we let Toby inside the house. Ruby stared at him, again hissing and growling. But he didn’t like it inside the house; he wandered around but for the most part hangs out by the door, as above. He’s as afraid to come inside as Ruby is to go outside.

So, even though Toby comes by, he doesn’t come by every day anymore. And he only comes by pretty early, around 7:30 am. Basically, at this point, he’s here for about 5 minutes a day. I get up in the morning, go downstairs and bring Toby inside, watch Ruby hiss at him, go make coffee, and then feed him. He eats a bit, and then leaves.

And he’s not even here every day.

We’re not sure whose cat he is; we think he belongs to someone in the neighborhood. I put a collar on him once. He returned the next day without the collar, and then the day after he had the collar back on! Then, the day after that he didn’t have it anymore.

Not sure what happened there, but I suspect the person who owns him wondered what he was doing with a collar.